Chapter 2. Installation

Table of Contents

Installation Requirements
Platform Requirements
Operating System, Tools and Environment Requirements
Operating System
Tools
Environment Prerequisites
Installation Instructions
Starting <oXygen/> XML Author plugin
Obtaining and registering a license key
Named User license registration
How floating (concurrent) licenses work
How to install the <oXygen/> XML Author license server as a Windows service
How to release a floating license
License registration with a registration code
Unregistering the license key
Upgrading the <oXygen/> XML Author application
Uninstalling the Eclipse plugin
Performance problems
Large documents

This section explains platform requirements and installation procedures. It also provides instructions on how to obtain and register a license key, how to perform upgrades and uninstall the application if required.

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Installation Requirements

Platform Requirements

Minimum run-time requirements are listed below.

  • Pentium Class Platform

  • 256 MB of RAM

  • 200 MB free disk space

Operating System, Tools and Environment Requirements

Operating System

Windows

Windows 98 or later.

Mac OS

minimum Mac OS X 10.4

UNIX/Linux

All versions/flavors

Tools

Installation packages are supplied in compressed archives. Ensure you have installed a suitable archive extraction utility with which to extract the archive. The MD5 sum is available on the Download page for every archive. You should check the MD5 sum of the downloaded archive with a MD5 checking tool available on your platform.

Environment Prerequisites

Prior to installation ensure that your installed Eclipse platform is the following:

  • the latest stable Eclipse version available at the release date. The current version works with Eclipse 3.3.

  • <oXygen/> XML Author supports only official and stable Java virtual machine versions 1.5.0 and later from Sun Microsystems (available at http://java.sun.com) and from Apple Computer (pre-installed on Mac OS X). For Mac OS X, Java VM updates are available at http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java/. <oXygen/> XML Author may work very well with JVM implementations from other vendors but the eventual incompatibilities will not be solved in further <oXygen/> XML Author releases. <oXygen/> XML Author does not work with the GNU libgcj Java virtual machine.